The Indian National Question-A Conceptual Frame

Many marxists maintain (after Stalin) that since Indians possess neither a commonality of language, nor of economic life and menial make-up, the concept of a developing Indian nation is difficult to accept. But the ingredients of a nation or a nationality cannot be so precisely and mechanically listed. A territorial community of culture andlor of nation could evolve in appropriate historical circumstances on the basis of any of a wide range of common identity marks, not all (as for instance, script) being mentioned by Stalin.